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Colonial Era
Early United States
Antebellum Era
The Civil War
People and Inventions
100
This problem caused the colonies to revert from using printed money to using a bartering system
What is Inflation?
100
Immigrants from this country formed the basis of the North's poor and unskilled.
What is Ireland?
100
This institution was ultimately profitable for planters but bad for the economy
What is Slavery?
100
Kennedy basically claims that the South, relying solely on cotton, was a --------, and that this was a precarious state of affairs.
What is a banana republic?
100
This person invented the cotton gin, which created slavery dependence in the South.
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
This new economic system allowed the colonies to be less dependent on Britain by no longer importing textiles, but instead making them in the colonies
What is a Market Economy?
200
This policy, implemented by Jefferson, was meant to maintain American neutrality in the Napoleonic Wars. Instead it inflicted great damage to the national economy and harmed the president’s popularity.
What is the Embargo Act?
200
This internal development led the colonies to be more economically unified and interdependent
What is Transportation?
200
This event led to a lot of immigration into California, which as a result later came in as a free state, upsetting the equilibrium of slave and free states and making the Civil War all the more imminent.
What is the Gold Rush?
200
This agricultural invention increased wheat production to 10 to 12 cares per day, which quadrupled the cost of farming due to rising land prices.
What is the mechanical reaper?
300
According to this theory, Britain used the colonies for maximum opportunity to buy and sell to the homeland exclusively, limiting the growth of the colonial economy
What is Mercantilism?
300
Some historians credit this event as the cause of the subsequent Market Revolution.
What is the War of 1812?
300
Slavery was ultimately detrimental to this majority group in the south.
Who are the small white farmers?
300
This section of the country opposed federal funding for railroads because it saw them as benefitting the rest of the country at its expense.
What is the South?
300
Created by Alexander Hamilton, this institution was created to handle the financial needs and requirements of the central government of the newly formed United States, which had previously been thirteen individual states with their own banks, currencies, financial institutions, and policies.
What is the First Bank of the United States?
400
These acts enforced the quartering act, as well as placing taxes on everyday items including tea, affecting more of the population than the previous taxes passed by Britain, ultimately heightening tensions.
What are the Townshend Acts?
400
Some historians claim that without this type of policy, first proposed by Hamilton in order to raise revenue and encourage domestic production, America would not have industrialized as soon as it did, if ever. Some historians go so far as to assign this policy a role in causing the Civil War as it caused much sectional strife.
What is a tariff?
400
Low wages and unsafe working conditions led to this development in Northern factories
What is the emergence of labor unions?
400
While the northern economy right before the Civil War should be characterized as basically capitalist, the South displayed significant elements of this different economic system. In fact, some historians frame the Civil War as a conflict between these supposedly antagonistic systems.
What is feudalism?
400
Along with the telegraph, this helped to improve communication amongst the states and increase general public knowledge of the Nation's affairs.
What are improved newspaper presses?
500
These law inhibited the colonies economic growth and restricted their trader to and from the colonies to English ships.
What are the Navigation Laws?
500
Alexander Hamilton proposed that the federal government do this because he thought doing so would unite the new nation and give it financial credibility.
What is resuming state governments' debts?
500
This development, which marked the beginnings of capitalism, broadened the gender barrier and introduced separate spheres
What is the Market Revolution?
500
This act, which allowed people to get 160 acres for free in the West, angered southern slaveholders because plantations required a lot of land.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
From 1820-1830's, this economic system thrived, racking in 2$ billion in production (in the North) and balanced the revenue from agriculture and manufactured goods.
What is the Factory System?